Featured Blog Posts – January 2017 Archive (13)

Rutgers Division of Global Affairs is hosting its Annual Global Affairs Conference on April 21, 2017, in Newark, NJ. This year's theme is “Dynamics of Global Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs”. Submissions are being accepted until February 15, 2017. You can access the CfP here: …

From history some signs of droughts, poverty and other natural calamities, everyone can see how shadows bring to the sustenance of population but I cannot deny that after their effects led to many discoveries by differentiating high risk zones from low risk zones in that times. Some countries, mountains or hills became hindrance due to range of factors. So population started to work about a mixed agriculture whereby those who has land started to worry about themselves only. This…

"The American democracy must discover a middle ground between making a President a Czar and making him a puppet. The problem is to devise means of reconciling a strong and purposeful Presidency with equally strong and purposeful forms of democratic control. Or to put it succinctly, we need a strong Presidency - but a strong Presidency within the Constitution." Arthur M Schlesinger

Modern International Affairs analysis is often putting forth the perspective that increased access to technology will always benefit populations. This is true, but why? A 2011 Mckinsey Global Institute Report “Internet Matters: The Net’s Sweeping Impact on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity” found that in the countries studied (mature economies) the internet accounted for 10% of GDP growth over the past 15 years. Now, internet connectivity has exploded since 2011, and there are a …

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Are Americans too deferential to the armed forces, becoming increasingly willing to "outsource" judgement to the military? Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev talks with Dr. Kori Schake of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, co-author with James Mattis of "Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military."

Less than 800 miles from our shores, Hondurans protesting against a fraudulent presidential election have been clubbed, shot at, terrorized, and arbitrarily arrested by the hundreds. Yet this crisis has hardly produced a blip on the radar screen of mainstream U.S. news.

The United States sent mixed signals at the 2018 Munich Security Conference. On the one hand, a bipartisan group of officials stressed continuity and legislative oversight when it comes to American foreign policy. But on the other, while not in attendance, President Trump undermined this message with tweets and comments signalling a more transactional approach.